News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by e63f67dd-065b on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:13PM (#33644950)
Yeah I’m definitely not saying that it’s a good business to be supporting boutique bots for small communities, but there’s a very long tail of communities with a few thousand people that have some custom needs. Supporting them almost definitely does not scale at all.

But that’s the problem though - everybody uses a slightly different set of features, so the more you add the more people you get.

Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by sanketc on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:44PM (#33645381)
Absolutely! It’s helpful for us to keep the long tail of usecases in mind tho as we prioritize, so we can capture aspects of those. We’ll ofcourse never be able to replace a full custom bot. However, bots coded for specific uses come with its own set of challenges (eg. managing a backend server, logging, relying on someone else to update basic things etc.) which we hope to mitigate.